On Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 9:11 AM Liz Orembo via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Thank you Kivuva and Arya for your additional contributions.

@kivuva, You raise a very valid point. Carpooling was the initial idea of uber and the car owner business model was the unintended outcome, offering people alternative income, and shifted a big part of the traditional taxi industry to digitally hailed taxis. Current situation is that people took loans to own cars and are working day and night just like any other taxi guy.

This discussion has nothing to do with loans and private investors making bad financial decisions. In economics, garbage collecting is inevitable. Those with no proper use for their capital will loose it in dubious investments

So how can we make the carpooling idea work for Kenya to ease out the traffic?

Simple. Allow drivers ferrying empty seats to load them with humans, and don't legislate stringent measures that make that impossible. In fact, NTSA should pay private car owners to donate those empty seats for public transport decongestion. There are countries in this world where public transport is free. Movement of people leads to economic growth.